Award Winning Books

In this witty historical fiction middle grade novel set at the turn of the century, an 11-year-old girl explores the natural world, learns about science and animals, and grows up. A Newbery Honor Book. "The most delightful historical novel for tweens in many, many...

This Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist is an unforgettable modern classic and features the debut of the larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly...

Understand 1 Corinthians and the social and cultural world of Corinth. Part of the critically acclaimed BECNT series.Author: David E. GarlandPublisher: Baker AcademicPublished: 11/01/2003Pages: 870Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.84lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.32w x 2.02dISBN: 9780801026300Award: Gold Medallion Book Awards - FinalistAbout the AuthorDavid E. Garland...

Leading Expert Demystifies Angels and How They Interact with PeopleAngels have a vital role in the Kingdom of God--and in the lives of believers. Yet many Christians treat the existence of angels lightly or fail to consider them at all. In Angels Are Real...

Spunky and outgoing, nothing much bothers medical examiner Serena Hopkins--except for the thought of falling in love again. But when a serial killer is picking off her former classmates, Serena's life becomes intertwined with her old high school crush, FBI agent Dominic Allen. Is...

Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird is based on a story recounted by Joe Medicine Crow in All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture (Smithsonian Institution Press and NMAI). Grandson of a scout who rode with Custer, Mr. Medicine Crow (1913-2016) was...

Sometimes life's most precious treasure lies at Dangerous Depths.Leia ditched a promising medical career to settle on a secluded island of Hawaii. She ditched Bane, too, and he's come to the island to find out why. He's also in search of a fortune rumored...

Before she became Manhattan's most famous dominatrix, Nora Sutherlin was merely a girl called Eleanor... Rebellious, green-eyed Eleanor never met a rule she didn't want to break. She's sick of her mother's zealotry and the confines of Catholic school, and declares she'll never go...

Adventure is the last thing on Andrea Henderson's mind when she moves to Moses Lake. After surviving the worst year of her life, she's struggling to build a new life for herself and her son as a social worker. Perhaps in doing a job...

Believing herself guilty of a crime, Olivia Keene flees her home, eventually stumbling upon a grand estate where an elaborate celebration is in progress. But all is not as joyous as it seems.Lord Bradley has just learned a terrible secret, which, if exposed, will...

Now the principles of Elizabeth George's bestselling A Woman After God's Own Heart (more than 730,000 copies sold) are shared in sweet poetry for little girls. Teaming up once again with popular artist Judy Luenebrink (God's Wisdom for Little Girls) Elizabeth George shares the...

Leave time for wonder. Walt Whitman's When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer is an enduring celebration of the imagination. Here, Whitman's wise words are beautifully recast by New York Times #1 best-selling illustrator Loren Long to tell the story of a boy's fascination with...

How do you make a rainbow? If you are a weaver you can make a rainbow with wool. If you are a sheep you can BE a rainbow. Here's how.Author: George Ella LyonPublisher: Atheneum BooksPublished: 03/01/2004Pages: 40Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 11.31h x 8.87w x...

Heart is convinced that the old man from Castle Avamir can help her find her family -- the only people she dares to trust with the Unicorn's secret. But the old man has been taken prisoner by Lord Dunraven. Heart's search for the truth...

Joe Bunch breaks down his life--and his secrets--for a school assignment in this second book of the funny, heartfelt, and beloved Misfits series by Bunnicula author James Howe. What can I say? I'm a total original. Joe may only be twelve-going-on-thirteen, but he's known...

Through moving prose and beautiful watercolors, a Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Medal-winning author-illustrator duo collaborate to tell the poignant tale of a spirited young girl who comes face to face with segregation in her southern town. There's a place in this 1950s...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award "Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times "Fine...

The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter A -- while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea...

In the final novel of Nora Roberts's Dream Trilogy, Laura struggles to mend a broken heart and broken family--until someone from her past makes all of her dreams come true... Laura Templeton found out the hard way that nothing in life is guaranteed. The...